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- From: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)
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- Subject: Re: John Sinclair
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:44:40 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <QfE=_v200UhWM2Hwok@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec29.230951.25619@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- If I'm remembering correctly, John Sinclair was the founder of the
- White Panthers, a Detroit-area militant radical group modeled after
- the Black Panthers [not such an uncommon tribute in the late 60s and
- early 70s -- my favorite was the Grey Panthers, a militant senior
- citizens group that sounds like a joke but was actually very serious
- and played a large role in the fight for things like eliminating
- mandatory retirement ages] whose membership were white youth. They
- were pro-drug so the marijuana arrest seems not unlikely.
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